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B.C. father wants 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' banned

A Kamloops, B.C., father is calling on his local school board to ban the book The Perks of Being a Wallflower because he says it is vulgar and inappropriate.

Dean Audet wrote on his Facebook page the book is "garbage" and it contains "45 pages of graphic description of suicide, every swear word possible, immorality, rape, molestation, illegal acts, child pornography & raunchy pornography."

The coming-of-age novel is part of the curriculum for Grade 10 students at Kamloops Secondary School. First published in 1999 by MTV, the main character Charlie writes letters about his life experiences.

It was also turned into a movie in 2012, starring Emma Watson and Logan Lerman

The book has been banned before at American schools, and author Stephen Chbosky has defended it.

"If we didn't talk about sex and we didn't talk about drugs, and all these other things that impact teenagers' lives, literature would still reach teenagers. But the ones having problems in these areas would be totally left in the dark, and would unfortunately be more ignorant," he told Word Riot in 2011.

"The more you talk about it, the more you take away its power and its mystery, and people can make much more informed and mature decisions about these things. But most parents don't want to admit these things exist, and they want to deny that these things exist, so they will blame the book or the TV show or the movie. And for that, I'm very sad. "

A message left with staff at the School District 73 Kamloops/Thompson was not immediately returned.